Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13966, Abram Elledge, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.6
Elledge, Abram
R.13966
CONTENTS

57. 678
Abraham Ellege For Pension under the Act of 7 th June 1832.
Filed in Pension office March 1849 by R d Burges Att y
1 For 7 June 32

South Carolina Greenville District
On this 29 th day of January 1848 personally appeared in open Court before the court of ordinary now sitting Abram Ellidge a resident of Greenville district South Carolina aged 86 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated he volunteered under Capt. Hartgraves under Col. Benjamin Cleveland in Wilks county North Carolina on the first of August 1780 and served six months during his service he marched down through North Carolina into South Carolina as guard to Col. Cleveland's baggage train then returned again to Wilks North Carolina at which place he was discharged at the end of six months that he had served and that his discharge was burned by fire and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of but one person who can testify to his services that is Ephraim Ellidge whose testimony he has procured He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Watson judge of the court of ordinary his Abram Ellidge mark

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and from our personal acquaintance with the applicant and witness that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and we further certify that this declaration has the word he interlined on the 21 st line and the word knows on the 22 nd line from the top of the page given under my hand and seal of office the day and year above written
John Watson Judge of the court of ordinary
State of South Carolina } D. Robt M. Kay Greenville District. } Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the District aforesaid, do certify that John Watson is Judge of the Court of Ordinary for said District; and that his Court is a Court of Record; and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his is, is genuine; and full faith and credit should be given his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of Office, at Greenville C.S. this 31 st day of January A.D. 1848.
Robt M. Kay Clerk of Greenville District South Carolina

Gemini Solca.
Power of Atty. to J. L. Edwards & Co to examin. Probation Claim from
Jerimiah Goodwin & Mary Benefield heirs & daughters of Abraham Eledge decd
We desire to see the papers in this case Edwards Smith Dec 13 '52.
Dec 20 - 52
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South Carolina Greenville district } We the undersigned, Jemima Goodwin and Mary Benefield the daughters & heirs of Abram Eledge, deceased Appoint J. L. Edwards & Co. our Attorneys to claim & prosecute the Revolutionary Claim of Abram Eledge late of Greenville district deceased as he applied in his life time for a pension for his services in the Revolutionary war. and we hereby revoke all other Attorneys in the said Claim Nov 30, 1852.
In presence of W. Taylor
Jemima her X Goodwin mark
Mary her X Benefield mark heirs and daughters of Abram Eledge deceased

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, IN AND OVER THE STATE AFORESAID.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
Know ye that John Watson whose seal and signature appear to his certificate on the instrument of writing hereunto annexed is/was at the time of signing: Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Greenville District & as such by law entitled to the custody of original wills & all Records of said Office & that his certificate is in due form & by the proper officer: Also that John Garington whose seal & signature appear to his certificate hereunto annexed was at the date thereof Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Laurens District & duly authorized to act as such
THEREFORE, all due faith, credit and authority is and ought to be had and given to their  this proceedings and certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia. the twenty eighth day of December - - - in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and in the Seventh third - - - year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
B. A. Hamagan
SECRETARY OF STATE.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
13966
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P. O. Abraham Ellege
Service: Rev. War
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

South Carolina } personally appeared Laurens District } before me J. H. Henderson one of the Magistrates Ephraim Elledy and makes oath that he is personally acquainted with Abram Ellidge who served in the war of the Revolution under Capt Hargraves under Col. Benjamin Cleveland six months as a volunteer in the year 1780 and that he saw him frequently in service at that time and under the officers above said in the united States army
Sworn to before me January 24th 1848 J. H. Henderson
Ephraim Ellidge
The State of South Carolina } John Garlington Laurens District } Clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas in and for the District of Laurens and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that J. H. Henderson, is an acting magistrate in and for the District aforesaid, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine, that all due faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations as such.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Laurens Court House on the 25 th January A D 1848. John Garlington
Clerk of the Court of Sessions & C. P.

Greenville South Carolina
Nov the 28 th 1857
To the Hon Jas. E. Heath,
Dear Sir
Shraham
Ellege a Revolutionist Residing in Greenville District South Carolina, Deceased In the Month of August 1857, who was a Pensioner under the Laws of the U. S.
I am informed that his Claim for Pension was admitted, and paid up to a certain period, You will please inform me what amt, has been paid, and to whom paid, and what arrearage of Pension is still due said Claimant up to the Date above Stated
Very Respectfully Yours Obedt Servt
Joseph Powell
Administrator of the Estate of Shraham Ellege
Hon J. E. Heath Comp r Pensions

Mrs Mary Bedingfield Dower of Attorney to E. M. Thompson Esqr
Abraham Ellege J.C. -
Filed Feb. 12. 1852
W Cole

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Mary Bedingfield Daughter of Abraham Ellege deceased of Laurens district South Carolina hereby constitute and appoint Michael Thompson my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Abraham Ellege for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby author- ize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Depart- ments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Cer- tificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Michael Thompson to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and Seal this 28 day January A. D., 185 2 .
Signed and Sealed in the presence of } Mary Bedingfield Alexander A Powell } her mark attest
STATE OF South Carolina COUNTY OF Laurens district } ss:
On this 28 th day of January A. D. 185 2 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace  Notary Public  District in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Bedingfield and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid. }
Joseph Douell  J. Peace. Notary Public

Claim of Abraham Ellege Act of
STATE OF South Carolina Greenville district ss.
Be it known, That on this 28 th day of January A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty Two , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace  Notary Public in and for the County  District and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Bedingfield a resident of Greenville district in said County , and made oath according to law that She is the Daughter of Abraham Ellege deceased
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner Soldier and whose declaration is now on file in the pension department at the rate of  for pension Dollars per annum; that has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that She is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. Joseph Powell Justice of the Peace. Notary Public
her Mary X Bedingfield mark Alexander A Powell
I, Joseph Powell  Notary Public Justice of the Peace , in and for said County do hereby certify that Mary Bedingfield who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County  District , and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Joseph Powell Notary Public
I, O'Keefe Clerk of the _____ Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph Powell before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Fourth day of February A. D. 1852.
O'Keefe Clerk.

STATE OF COUNTY OF
} ss.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me
that States at the rate of $ day of leaving surviving
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United per annum and that died on the eighteen hundred and
and that
the only surviving child of the aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty.